Back to School Junk Removal Strategies

As I said a year ago, this newsletter is designed to keep you – our valued customers – up to date on your favorite Fort Mill-area junk removal and microstorage service. And like I wrote in Talkin’ Trash’s inaugural welcome essay, this newsletter is about sharing Trash & Stash’s stories as we continue to build our business, connect with our community, operate in an environmentally-responsible way, and provide the best customer service the junk removal industry has ever seen.

So it’s August again, and that means for many families, it’s back-to-school time.

If your kids are moving up the academic ladder and outgrowing belongings, furniture, books and even clothing, maybe it’s time to move on from these things and avoid creating a lot of sentimental clutter that gets harder to get rid of as time marches on.

Make decluttering part of your back to school organizing. 

Areas to focus on in your home as kids back into the swing of catching buses, packing lunches, toting bags and sports equipment include:

Pantry:

Get your snack area organized so it’s easy to dole out items for lunchboxes and also so you can create the go-to spot for after school nourishment, a pre-emptive strike against having to hear repeatedly, “what do we have to eat?”

You won’t need an expensive convenience store-style display case, but getting a simple set of plastic containers like this one available from Amazon will do wonders for separating the granola bars from the fruit roll-ups from the trail mix, and so on.

Art/Crafts/School Supplies Closet:

You may not have the luxury of dedicating an entire closet to nurturing your little Picaso, but like the snacks that can get out of hand if not organized via containers, the same concept can be applied to arts and crafts supplies – and even general school supplies. It’s important to keep the messy stuff – paints, glues, etc. – contained in baskets, boxes or bins.

Entryway/Foyer

Clutter can get out of control quickly if kids come home from school and dump their backpacks, lunchboxes,jackets, shoes and whatnot in your home’s entryway or foyer. The best way to fight this battle is by maximizing vertical space, i.e. utilize coat racks, hooks, and shelves to get things off of the floor.

Maybe you have collegians or other young adults leaving the nest, which means it’s a perfect opportunity to refresh your living space and keep your house from becoming a storage unit until Joe College and/or Jane Career can figure out what stuff that they want to take with them as they navigate adulthood.